Case: Government Offices of Sweden

In the fall of 2011 the Swedish Government initiated a new strategy for the implementation of a new disabilities act. The strategy was launched at a morning conference arranged by Handisam, and took place the Government offices of Sweden’s office at Mäster Samuelsgatan in Stockholm. The speakers included Maria Larsson (Minister for Children and the Elderly) and Hillevi Engström (Minister for Employment).

Westreamu was responsible for livecasting and video documentating the full event in an accessible fashion. The latter included live sign language interpretation, captioning, and audio descriptions. During the event we simultaneously streamed five different channels with various accessibility features.

In the midst of the production we also made the short behind the scenes video: Accessible live casting at The Swedish Government Offices (embedded below). The clip features many of the hardware and software solutions used for the live production (ignore a couple of Swedish words in the beginning).